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Can Cash Change the Humanitarian System?
Podcast
In this episode we reflect on how far cash has changed the humanitarian system. We question whether it has lived up to early expectations or whether the system is using cash without fundamentally changing. What's needed to make the humanitarian system better at responding to needs and preferences of...
Cash – How Can We Unlock its Real Potential?
Podcast
In receny years, cash has been changing the humanitarian system, but how have these shifts truly impacted the people affected by crisis? And what changes need to happen if cash is going to reach its full potential? In this episode, we embark on an eye-opening journey with our dynamic duo of guests, Meg...
Is Cash the Key to More People Centred Aid?
Podcast
In this episode we ask what people-centered aid looks like in practice, particularly when we think about cash and voucher assistance? With our three guests, we explore if people centred aid is different or is just a new buzz-phrase. Most importantly we explore the role cash could play in achieving more...
Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?
Podcast
In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like.
Is Large-scale Cash Compatible with Locally Led Response?
Podcast
In this episode, we challenge the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress.
Will New Technologies Help Deliver More and Better Cash?
Podcast
Technology brings new opportunities, risks, and dilemmas for the humanitarian system. In this episode, we explore these issues, and question whether the combination of technology and cash could bring transformative change and finally make aid more people-centered.
What is stopping cash from transforming humanitarian aid?
Podcast
Over six episodes, Series 2 of CashCast explores what’s holding humanitarian cash assistance back from reaching its full potential: Where has change flourished or faltered? And what can we do about it? Together, with our seven fascinating guests, we delve into issues around CVA transformative change,...
Humanitarian cash assistance at a crossroads, warns new report
News
Press release: The State of the World's Cash 2023
What does the Grand Bargain 3.0 mean for Cash and Voucher Assistance?
News
A summary of the latest developments on the Grand Bargain, and what they mean for humanitarian cash and voucher assistance.
Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance statement: The need for a humanitarian policy refresh
News
Statement from Sarah Charles, the Assistant to the Administrator of USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) on the policy process to renew and refresh our CVA policy commitments
High-level meeting attended by over 130 senior leaders highlights the need for a humanitarian policy refresh
News
Summary of high-level meeting which launched a collective process for refreshing cash and voucher assistance-related policy commitments.
You asked, we acted: Lots going on in the Americas on CVA and Social Protection
News
Sometimes it’s good to pause and take stock and realise just how much progress is being made! Responding to clear demand, in recent months, we’ve been working with many of you to refresh and develop resources on linkages between CVA and social protection. Lots has been achieved drawing on the...
Episode 8: CVA- catching up with people on the move in the Americas
Podcast
In this episode we explore with experts the topic of humanitarian responses in contexts of human mobility. We discuss the challenges as well as the opportunities and innovations that exist when it comes toto effectively delivering recipient centered CVA in the Americas.
Message from the Chair
News
Anissa Toscano
CALP’s flagship course materials have just been updated
News
‘CVA – The Fundamentals’ and ‘Core CVA Skills for Programme Staff’ are CALP’s flagship courses which aim to build on the CVA related knowledge and skills of humanitarian practitioners. They have recently been updated.
Episode 7: How can we use cash and voucher assistance to support universal health goals?
Podcast
In episode 7, we discuss how health needs, and the provision of health services, in humanitarian response works and where using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) may help. What we know already is that CVA may be used for health outcomes but giving cash via Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) via the...
Episode 6: Are we ready to use cash and voucher assistance to prepare for crises in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Podcast
In this 6th episode we explore this question with experts on the subject about the potential benefits of linking social protection and humanitarian CVA for preparedness; and how, from examples in the region, we can unpack the challenges, enablers, barriers, and opportunities to use the modalities in this...
Cash coordination in response to the Ukraine emergency
News
Amidst the Ukraine emergency, don’t forget to coordinate with national Cash Working Groups
Anissa Toscano announced as CALP’s new Chair of Board
News
Anissa Toscano, Vice President of Humanitarian Leadership and Response at Mercy Corps, is the Chair of CALP’s Board
We are the ‘CALP Network’
News
Our name is changing; we are now the ‘CALP Network’.
